Month: November 2023

Some men shot dead a female teacher at a private school in Mandi Bahauddin over a ‘matrimonial’ dispute, police said on Wednesday.

Police said the assailants had opened fire at the teacher in Khatiala Shekhana area while she was going to school. “She was shifted to hospital where she succumbed to her injuries,” they elaborated.

The Force said they had registered the case and started an investigation into the incident.

Source: Pakistan Observer

The police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested three more suspects wanted in a murder case involving a Kohistan girl, who was reportedly killed for honour on Jirga’s order a few days back.

The young girl was killed allegedly on the orders of a local jirga in the Kolai-Palas areas of Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The slain girl was one of the two whose pictures and videos — apparently edited — dancing with local boys went viral on the social media platforms. The police rescued the second girl.

Those arrested include the victim’s uncle, cousin and her close relative, the police official said, adding that the suspects would be produced before the court tomorrow. Meanwhile, the police have taken the boy — featured in the viral video with the girls — into protective custody, Daily Jang reported. 

Later, the boy was arraigned before the court of a local magistrate where he expressed complete ignorance about the photos and the videos.

The other girl seen in the photos had been married to a youth — whom she was already engaged —, the police revealed.

The police would seek FIA cybercrimes help to trace the suspect who made the pictures viral on the internet, said the officials.

‘Pictures of Kohistan girl were fake’

A day earlier, police revealed that the pictures of two young girls from Kohistan, including the one who was killed for honour, were doctored and posted on fake social media accounts, The News reported.

The issue came to light after the girl was allegedly killed by her father and other male family members for honour a few days after her fake pictures went viral on social media.

The police had arrested the father and recovered the weapon. Regional Police Officer of Hazara Muhammad Ijaz Khan said that police were raiding the villages to arrest those who were involved in the decision to kill the girl.

The report further stated that the police were informed about a similar case in another village at some distance after which they decided to rescue that girl.

“The district police officer along with a party traveled for three hours to go to the village and rescued the other girl. She was produced before the magistrate where she said there was no threat to her life after which the court handed her over to the family,” Ijaz said.

The girl was produced before the court on November 24, a day before her wedding, and said that she had no threat from her family. The police then decided to hand her over to her family, however, they were keeping an eye on her.

Source: Geo News

LAHORE: The family of a female medical student, who was shot at and injured by the uncle of a teenage driver and later died on November 10 in Agrics Housing Society on Raiwind Road, has been receiving life threat from the accused persons.

The accused party has allegedly been pressurising the victim family for reconciliation and withdrawal of FIR. According to the FIR registered at Chuhng police station, an underage driver – identified as Abdur Rehman – rammed his car into another vehicle – in which the victim’s family was present, resulting in a quarrel on November 04, 2023.

The victim identified as Tazeen Khan, 23, received bullet injuries. She was rushed to hospital where she died on November 10. The FIR stated that the suspect identified as Abdul Rehman was over-speeding, drifting and rammed his vehicle into the victim’s car.

The police, while taking action, arrested two suspects and recovered a weapon. However, three more suspects are at large. The affected family has moved to Lahore from Saudi Arabia for their daughter’s education.

Meanwhile, the victim’s family also penned down a letter to the chief minister and sought protection, saying that the ‘influential’ suspects were pressurising them for reconciliation.

According to SHO Chuhng Inspector Nasir Hameed, three persons, including the girl were in the car. The car of the accused Abdul Rehman hit the victim’s car from behind. The driver in the victim’s car started chasing Abdul Rahman. Seeing the car being chased, the accused Abdul Rahman called his uncle Abid, who opened fire after seeing the chasing car.

The bullet hit the victim’s waist. The accused stopped the car of the victim’s family. Seeing the family in the car, the accused escaped from the spot. Inspector said that the age of the accused Abdul Rehman is 17 years and two months according to the data. Abid and Ali Raza, the accused who fired, were arrested. Accused Abdul Rehman, Sajid and Amjad are on interim bail. The bails of the accused will be cancelled and they will be arrested, he maintained.

Source: The News

BAHAWALPUR: A married woman was allegedly raped by a man in her hut near Jalalpur Morewala at Lodhran city late on Saturday, the police said.

According to the police, the nomad family residing in their hut within the limits of Lodhran city police station reported the rape incident.

The suspect entered the hut, raped the 21-year-old woman while she was sleeping with her mother-in-law.

The survivor’s mother filed a complaint, leading to the registration of the first information report No 2512/23 under section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Gypsy family members woke up on the victim’s screams, and the suspect managed to flee. The police claim to have arrested the suspect.

Source: Dawn

MANSEHRA: A girl was allegedly killed and another rescued by the police after their video went viral on social media in the Kolai-Palas district on Sunday.

It was learned that the incident happened in the Barsharyal village of Palas, where a girl was killed allegedly by her family on the decree of a local jirga. The boys, who could be seen in videos, had gone into hiding since the footage went viral four days ago.

The police shifted the body to a nearby health facility and handed it over to her family after doctors carried out the medico-legal formalities there.

“One of two girls whose video had gone viral on social media has been killed, and police rescued and shifted the other to the local magistrate for recording her statement,” Deputy Superintendent of Police, Palas, Masood Khan told reporters.

He said the girl produced before the local magistrate in her statement stated she felt no threat to her life by her family and wanted to go with them instead of Darul Aman.

The cop said the SHO of the Palas police station lodged a first information report of the murder on his own under sections 302/311 and 109 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

“We have launched an investigation to trace those who killed the girl and who either advised or convened a jirga and sentenced her to death,” he said.

The DSP said that nobody was above the law and all those involved in brutal killing would be taken to justice at any cost. The jirga in such murders executed in the name of honor declares men and women as culprits and eliminates them. In one such infamous Kohistan video scandal, five women clapping at the dance of a man were killed in 2013. Four brothers of the dancing man were killed, and two others are still facing the murder decree. The Supreme Court of Pakistan’s then chief justice in 2013 had taken suo moto notice of the case.

Source: The News